[http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/9/1983.short How are all those non-bilaterian lineages related? Get ready for a few surprises!]<br/>

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[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.21150/abstract Is striated muscle homologous across Eumetazoa? Do cnidarians have mesoderm?]

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[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7406/abs/nature11180.html Can new molecular data help determine whether eumetazoan striated muscles are homolgous?]

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[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00231.x/full Are the eumetazoan taxa really just derived sponges?]<br/>

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[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/images/2/2f/Kristinesen_and_Funch_2000_Micrognathozoa.pdf Kristensen and Funch provide the very first description of a micrognathozoan!]<br/>

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[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/images/4/49/Kristensen_and_Funch_1999.pdf Kristensen and Funch are at it again! This time they provide the very first description of a cycliophoran.]<br/>

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[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v490/n7418/pdf/nature11328.pdf An aplacophoran with valves!!?? This fossil supports a relationship between Aplacophora and Polyplacophora.]<br/>

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[http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/279/1747/4559.full.pdf+html The enigmatic vampire squid are often interpreted as phylogenetic relics, with features of both octopi and squid. But what are the strange retractile filaments of these organisms?]<br/>

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'''Cool Videos to Check out:'''<br/>

'''Cool Videos to Check out:'''<br/>

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[http://vimeo.com/22940959 The Curiously Complex Lifecycle of ''Simbion pandora''.] Ever wonder how members of the phylum Cycliophora remain on a lobster's mouthparts when the lobster molts?

Creature Cast Dr. Casey Dunn, Professor of Invertebrate Zoology at Brown University, has his undergraduate students create artistic interpretations of the natural history of invertebrate animals! These video projects and student friendly descriptions of exciting discoveries in invertebrate biology can be found at the Creature Cast blog.